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Aida Akhmetova

Aida is an associate in Morgan Lewis's corporate business transactions practice who represents clients involved in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments, and commercial transactions in Kazakhstan. She also handles matters relating to general corporate, contract, and labor law. Aida has experience in international law and regional integration law, having advised a number of clients on various aspects of the newly formed Eurasian Economic Union and its legislation. For more information, view Aida's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/aakhmetova

Alexander Marchenko

Alexander is of counsel in the firm's energy transactions team, whose practice focuses primarily on upstream oil and gas, mining, and metals, advises clients throughout their corporate transactions. A native Russian speaker who also is fluent in English, Alexander counsels clients throughout the Russian Federation and Central Asian countries on onshore and offshore acquisitions and divestitures of exploration and production assets, including financing and parent guarantees; due diligence investigations; negotiating relevant sale-and-purchase; and amendment and reissuance of exploration and production licenses. For more information, view Alexander's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/amarchenko

Alexander Geda

Alexander is an associate who advises clients on banking and finance law in cross-border transactions. He works frequently with multinational banks and financial institutions on transactions with Russian parties and with Russia-based clients on international transactions. In 2014 Alexander was seconded to ING Moscow. Alexander joined Morgan Lewis from the banking and finance practice of another international law firm. For more information, view Alexander's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ageda

Alexandra Rotar

Alexandra focuses on advising companies investing and operating in the oil and gas, power, renewable energy, metals and mining, and natural resource sectors. Over the past 10 years, Alexandra has represented clients on some of their most significant transactions in the energy sector and major infrastructure projects. She also advises on complex commercial agreements as well as on compliance with corporate, industrial, and environmental regulations affecting companies doing business in the energy sector. For more information, view Alexandra's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/alexandrarotar

Alexandre Bailly

Alexandre is a partner in the firm's litigation practice who represents multinational and French clients in international business disputes, with a particular focus on complex business matters. Working closely with others on the Morgan Lewis team, he has litigated and arbitrated matters involving the industrial risks sector, commercial contracts, banking, bankruptcy, construction, and portfolio management. His clients include companies in the automotive, aerospace, construction, communications, technology, and consumer products fields, as well as banks, financial asset managers, and brokers. For more information, view Alexandre's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/abailly

Alexey Chertov

Alexey Chertov represents both lenders and borrowers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa in connection with the full spectrum of international banking and finance matters, from traditional bank financings to complex workouts, including prepayment finance, project finance, pre-export finance, acquisition finance, and syndicated lending. Alexey concentrates his practice on international commodity finance transactions, particularly in the oil and gas and metals and mining sectors. He also frequently advises clients on complex project finance transactions. Alexey speaks Russian and English. For more information, view Alexey's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/achertov

Alison Tanchyk

Alison handles government and internal investigations, complex civil litigation, and compliance and regulatory cases, with an emphasis on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters. She defends companies and individuals against criminal and civil investigations alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act (FCA), and involving allegations of healthcare, tax, and securities fraud, and other business frauds. Alison also counsels clients on matters related to developing, implementing, evaluating, and auditing internal compliance and ethics programs. Most recently, she represented Olympus Corporation of the Americas in connection with an FCPA investigation of Olympus’s sales and marketing practices in Latin America resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement and $22.8 million fine, announced March 1, 2016. In 2014, Latinvex named her one of Latin America’s Top 50 Female Lawyers, and in 2016, Latinvex named her as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers.

Allison Soilihi

Allison is a partner in the firm's energy transactions practice. Representing oil and gas companies, she advises on issues involving acquisitions of oil blocks, hydrocarbon assets, and upstream, midstream, and downstream assets. Allison drafts and negotiates petroleum agreements, including those that involve production sharing, joint operating, and hydrocarbons transportation and supply. She also counsels on establishment conventions, joint ventures, and sale and purchase agreements of petroleum assets. For more information, view Allison's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/asoilihi.

Amy Maloney

Amy Maloney focuses her practice on project finance and development, working with sponsors and financing sources including commercial and investment banks, developers and independent power producers, private equity funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Amy advises clients on the development, construction, operation, and debt and equity financing of various types of energy and infrastructure projects, including wind, solar, and other renewable assets, gas-fired facilities, gas and liquids pipelines, transmission lines, and transportation infrastructure.

Anastasia Kiseleva

Anastasia is an associate in the firm's Moscow office who represents clients in general corporate and intellectual property matters, primarily focusing on telecommunications, media, and technology matters. She also assists with mergers, acquisitions, and securities transactions. Additionally, Anastasia maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Anastasia worked as a trainee law clerk in the corporate practice of an international law firm in Moscow. For more information, view Anastasia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/akiseleva

Anastasia Dergacheva

Anastasia is a partner in Morgan Lewis's corporate business transactions practice who counsels diverse clients on a variety of matters relating to intellectual property, regulatory, and antitrust matters. A native Russian, Anastasia is fluent in English. Her practice centers on the entertainment, manufacturing, and technology industries. Anastasia is vice chair of the Pro Bono Committee for the Moscow office. Its activities involve providing employment and corporate advice and counsel to a range of NGOs. For more information, view Anastasia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/adergacheva

Andrey Ignatenko

Andrey represents international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, divestments, and corporate restructurings, and also advises on a wide range of general corporate, competition, regulatory, and compliance matters. He counsels clients across multiple industries with a primary focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, and life sciences sectors. For more information, view Andrey's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/aignatenko

Artem Tamaev

Artem represents public and private companies and private equity sponsors on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, and strategic advice matters. He regularly advises clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, and has worked on deals across numerous jurisdictions in a broad range of industries, including agribusiness, consumer products, energy, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. For more information, view Artem's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/artemtamaev

Asem B. Bakenova

A partner in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, Asem Bakenova assists clients with all aspects of corporate law matters, infrastructure transactions, and intellectual property (IP) matters. She is admitted to practice as a patent attorney in Kazakhstan. Asem helps clients draft and negotiate agreements and other supporting documents, including fixed price, cost reimbursable, and hybrid engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) arrangements for major infrastructure projects in Kazakhstan; chemical feedstock and offtake agreements; and trademark protection, copyright, and technology licenses. For more information, view her bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/abakenova.

Aset Shyngyssov

Aset is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Almaty and Astana offices. He concentrates his practice on corporate law and corporate transactions, primarily mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Aset handles transactions in Kazakhstan and throughout Central Asia involving clients in the oil and gas, banking, capital markets and hospitality industries. Chambers, Legal 500 and International Financial Law Review consistently rank him among the top Kazakhstan lawyers for his experience in natural resources and corporate and commercial law. For more information, view Aset’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ashyngyssov

Bakhytzhan Kadyrov

Kazakh and international companies turn to partner Bakhytzhan Kadyrov for advice on a range of corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and tax. His client base spans industries and encompasses luxury hotel developers, mining companies, oil producers, and grain traders. He has advised on a sale of a large confectionary company in Kazakhstan. Bakhytzhan has also provided counsel on complex Kazakh legal issues to a major Kazakhstan real estate developer. For more information, view Bakhytzhan's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bkadyrov

Bela Yu Pelman

Bela is of counsel in the firm's Moscow office, she counsels clients on corporate law, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance, as well as employment law, immigration, Russian data privacy law, and mobility issues. She also advises foreign investors on corporate and compliance issues to address when establishing a presence in Russia, including setting up wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures, or mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Bela works with clients on Russian corporate and commercial matters, and antitrust, securities, and currency regulation. For more information, view Bela's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bpelman

Benjamin Stein

An associate in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, Benjamin Stein represents public and private companies in a variety of corporate transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt financings and SEC registered securities offerings. He also counsels public companies with respect to securities disclosure issues, corporate governance matters, NYSE and NASDAQ compliance issues and reporting obligations under the Exchange Act. Ben also has experience representing both companies and underwriters in a variety of capital markets transactions. For more information, view Benjamin’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/benjaminstein.

Brian L Zimbler

Brian is a partner in Morgan Lewis's corporate business transactions practice who splits his time between the firm's Moscow and Washington, DC, offices. He advises on cross-border investment and financial matters, primarily in emerging markets. He has more than 25 years of experience with transactions involving Russia, Kazakhstan, and other countries in the former Soviet Union. Brian has advised on some of the largest foreign investments in the region. He represents clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, real property, retail, and technology. For more information, view Brian’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bzimbler

Bruce Johnston

Bruce is head of the firm's international finance practice. He advises both lenders and borrowers on banking and finance transactions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including acquisition finance, leveraged finance, project finance, structured finance, trade finance, asset-backed lending, private placements and asset finance. Bruce also handles energy and infrastructure transactions, and workouts and restructurings. For more information, view Bruce's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/brucejohnston.

Carl Valenstein

Carl focuses his practice on domestic and international corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, project development, and transactional finance. He counsels extensively in the life science, telecom/electronics, and maritime industries, and he has worked broadly in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Carl advises clients on international risk management, including compliance with the foreign investment review process (Exon-Florio/CFIUS), export control and sanctions, anti-money laundering, anti-boycott, and anticorruption (FCPA) laws and regulations. He also advises on internal investigations, enforcement cases, and dispute resolution proceedings relating to his transactional and regulatory practice.

Carter Brod

Carter Brod counsels corporations, banks, sovereign governments, investment banks and investors on international capital markets transactions in emerging and developed markets. Dual-qualified in the United States and England and Wales, Carter handles a broad range of securities matters including Eurobond offerings, GDR and other equity offerings, convertible bonds, MTN programmes, high yield notes, regulatory capital instruments and sovereign bonds, as well as restructurings of outstanding debt securities. For more information, view Carter's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/cbrod.

Charles Dauthier

Charles is an associate in the firm's labour and employment practice who advises French and international clients on both labour and employment matters, as well as data privacy and cybersecurity. He advises clients on executive terminations, collective terminations and other employment matters, as well as data privacy issues that surface in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing, and other types of reorganization. He counsels clients on employment matters attendant in employee benefits and employee representation matters. Charles has experience working with clients to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and managing employee misconduct investigations. For more information, view Charles' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/cdauthier

Chris Warren-Smith

Deputy Chair of Morgan Lewis’s white collar and corporate investigations practice, Chris Warren-Smith represents clients in investigations and disputes, including corporate investigations, commercial and international litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, and regulatory enforcement proceedings. As a member of the firm’s global crisis management team, he has worked on many high-profile issues and crises that have arisen over the years. For more information, view Chris’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/chriswarrensmith.

Christian Zschocke

Managing Morgan Lewis’s Corporate and Business Transactions (CBT) practice in Frankfurt since 1997, Christian Zschocke counsels clients on public takeovers, and on European and German antitrust law. He represents clients in large takeover transactions on the side of bidders, financial investors, or target companies. Before joining Morgan Lewis, he served clients of another international New York–based law firm in London, Brussels, and Frankfurt, and worked for law firms in Paris, Hamburg, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/czschocke

David Brenneman

David is an associate in Morgan Lewis's antitrust and competition team, he represents clients primarily in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and civil antitrust litigation. In the merger process, David works on premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, international merger control, merger investigations, second requests, and compliance with consent orders. David represents pharmaceutical, chemical, and financial services clients before the Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice, and he coordinates filings for multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions worldwide. For more information, view David's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/dbrenneman

Dmitry Ivanov

Dmitry is a partner in the firm's Moscow office and is head of the firm's Russia dispute resolution practice. He counsels clients on cross-border and domestic litigation matters as well as international arbitration and general commercial matters. He also represents clients in state commercial courts and arbitration courts, and advises on disputes in real estate, construction, and contractual corporate matters, as well as on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Dmitry was a litigation associate at another international law firm. For more information, view Dmitry's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/divanov

Emil Shagiakhmetov

Emil advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, private equity, corporate restructurings, and investments as well as general corporate governance matters. Emil has experience in advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions in various industries, including retail, ecommerce, and technology. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he was an associate in the Moscow office of a leading international law firm. For more information, view Emil's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/emilshagiakhmetov

Emma Walsh

Emma Walsh, an associate in the antitrust practice at Morgan Lewis, focuses her practice on EU and UK competition law and antitrust. Emma represents clients on a variety of behavioural antitrust investigations and competition disputes before the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), the European Commission, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Emma’s experience is diverse, having worked on behalf of a variety of distinguished clients from a wide range of industries including healthcare, life sciences, and retail. For more information, view Emma’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/emmawalsh.

Eric Bord

Eric S. Bord counsels clients on corporate immigration issues involving the recruitment, hiring, transfer, and retention of personnel worldwide. He also advises businesses on compliance and risk management in connection with their global immigration programs. This includes counseling on compliance with I-9 and E-Verify rules, advising clients during immigration investigations, and conducting immigration due diligence for corporate transactions. Eric heads Morgan Lewis’s immigration compliance and risk management practice.

Eric Sitarchuk

Eric represents clients in government investigations and white-collar litigation. With 30 years of experience in this area, he represents clients in a wide variety of white-collar criminal matters, False Claims Act (FCA) and qui tam litigation, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other complex federal and state investigations. Working with boards of directors, audit committees, and corporate management, Eric has conducted numerous internal investigations, and advised on the creation and implementation of corporate compliance and ethics programs. He serves as chair of the firm’s white collar and corporate investigations practice. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Eric defends clients in federal criminal and civil cases that allege healthcare fraud; defense contract fraud; FCPA violations and other official corruption; securities fraud; antitrust violations; import/export offenses; theft of trade secrets; money laundering; drug diversion; tax fraud; pyramid schemes; commercial bribery; and environmental violations. In defending organizations and individuals during US government investigations, Eric has persuaded prosecutors to take no action and close investigations of Fortune 500 companies, large healthcare institutions, and prominent lawyers, executives, and public officials. He has tried numerous cases. Eric has been listed in International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers (2003–2015) and International Who's Who of Investigations (2014–2016).

Ethan Johnson

Ethan W. Johnson counsels clients on a variety of regulatory and transactional matters, with a focus on hedge fund and private equity fund formation, and guides investment managers through the legal intricacies of international operations. He also advises clients on establishing offices and operations outside the United States, developing and offering financial products and services sold on a global basis, and building global compliance programs.

Felipe Alice

Felipe Alice’s practice focuses on energy transactions and infrastructure projects relating to energy and corporate issues. Representing diverse clients, his work involves complex contracts, corporate restructurings, project finance, international data privacy issues, and real estate transactions. Additionally, Felipe is part of the cross-practice global workforce team that provides clients with integrated cross-border counseling and strategic planning on issues related to labor, employment, benefits, and immigration.

Frances Murphy

Frances Murphy, a partner in the antitrust practice at Morgan Lewis, focuses on competition law and antitrust matters. Frances currently serves as Managing Partner of the firm’s London office. Frances represents clients in complex, high value global cartel investigations, alleged abuse of dominance matters and civil proceedings for damages for breach of competition law/antitrust laws. She has experience defending investigations by the competition authorities, in particular by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority, and the European Commission and in leading actions in the Competition Authority Tribunal, the English Courts, and the European Courts. For more information, view Frances’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/francesmurphy.

Georgia Quenby

A partner in the finance practice at Morgan Lewis, Georgia Quenby advises clients globally on cross-border and international financing transactions, restructurings, and other special situations. Georgia works with clients structuring complex transactions on a solvent basis and in workouts. Her work spans a variety of industries and sectors, including real estate, retail, manufacturing, transportation, and oil and gas. She has experience acting for all classes of investors including banks, private investment funds, and the investee companies themselves, and often advises clients on strategic joint ventures. For more information, view Georgia’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/georgiaquenby.

Gerald Kehoe

Gerald focuses on private investment capital formation and investment product structuring. He advises fund sponsors managing vehicles investing in energy, infrastructure, renewables, buyouts, and other strategies. He also advises sponsors and global institutional investors on structuring and implementing co-investments, direct investing pools, master feeder partnerships, and other complex investment structures. Jerry advises US and international sponsors in fund launches, raising substantial commitments for investments in power and energy generation and transmission assets, real estate, solar and wind projects, patent royalty strategies, leveraged buyouts, clean technology, and other infrastructure assets. Commitments are sourced from institutional US and international investors, including sovereign wealth funds, US and global pension plans, insurance companies, endowments, family offices, and foundations. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked Jerry from 2009 to 2015. He is active in international business associations and committees promoting the development of commercial law and trade.

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Grigory Marinichev

Grigory is a partner in the firm's Moscow office who represents international lenders and borrowers in structured finance, syndicated lending, debt restructuring transactions, and insolvency issues. Grigory advises clients in the metals, mining, telecommunications, oil and gas, and power generation industries on a range of financial transactions—from syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, refinancing, and bond issues, to export financing, loans, and loan restructurings. He also represents and advises project sponsors, export credit agencies, and multilateral financial institutions. For more information, view Grigory's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/gmarinichev

Humberto Padilla Gonzalez

Humberto represents clients in mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He assists clients with complex financial, cross-border and US domestic M&A transactions, private equity fund investments, and internal compliance investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as data privacy issues and simple operational matters throughout Latin America. Part of a cross-practice Global Workforce team providing integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning, Humberto also advises clients on labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues in Latin America.

Iain Wright

Iain is a partner in the corporate business transactions team in London. With a focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and capital markets, Iain counsels clients on a range of corporate finance issues. He handles private and public M&A transactions in both the United Kingdom and internationally, and advises clients on initial public offerings (IPOs) and secondary fundraising. Iain also provides clients with regular guidance on securities law and governance issues, with an emphasis on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market for smaller, growing companies. For more information, view Iain's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/iwright.

Irene De Beni

Irene is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Brussels office who represents clients in significant antitrust matters in a variety of industries, including the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, retail, and financial services industries. Fluent in Italian, English, and French, she represents clients before the European Commission as well as national competition authorities of the European Union (EU) Member States. She has coordinated competition merger filings around the world involving the Brazilian, Chinese, South African, and Ukrainian authorities, among others. For more information, view Ms. De Beni's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/idebeni.

Izzet M Sinan

Izzet is a partner in the firm's Brussels office who counsels clients on European Union (EU) law. He advises on all aspects of EU competition law, helps companies obtain clearance for mergers and joint ventures before the European Commission and Member State agencies, and counsels on agreements and issues relating to requests for information. He also advises and defends clients involved in cartel agreements—including onsite European Commission dawn raid investigations and possible leniency and settlement issues—and implements compliance programs. For more information, view Izzet’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/isinan

James Vazquez-Azpiri

James counsels corporate clients on hiring and retaining foreign employees in his business immigration law practice. He advises businesses on labor certifications, specialty occupation petitions, and intracompany transfers. Clients rely on James for guidance through immigration law compliance during mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. He helps clients think and work proactively by providing them with traditional compliance policy reviews and audits, case management and litigation technology, and international executive travel and foreign resident worker visa processing. A co-head of the firm’s global immigration practice, James is part of Morgan Lewis’s cross-practice Global Workforce team. The group provides integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning across the spectrum of labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues. Legal and human rights groups have acclaimed James’s pro bono work. He has received both the C. Anthony Friedrich Memorial Award from the International Human Rights Law Group and the Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services from the State Bar of California.

Jayne McGlynn

Jayne is a partner in the firm's London office whose corporate business transactions experience encompasses a number of corporate matters, including international public and private acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and private equity transactions—with a particular focus on cross-border transactions. Jayne also advises clients on general corporate and commercial matters. For more information, view Jayne's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/jmcglynn.

Jennifer Josefson

Jennifer Josefson, a partner in the energy practice at Morgan Lewis, represents clients across the spectrum of energy industries, including oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, petrochemical, power, and renewables. Jennifer’s practice focuses on international, cross-border transactions and projects in Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Jennifer regularly advises on M&A, joint ventures, joint operating agreements, power purchase agreements, concessions, production sharing agreements, farm-ins, supply, and service agreements. She also handles the commercial agreements regularly used by energy companies for revenue generation, raw materials and feedstock inputs and facilities operations and maintenance. For more information, view Jennifer’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/jenniferjosefson.

Jennifer Connolly

Jennifer is an associate in Morgan Lewis's London office who advises businesses on the full range of UK immigration permissions. This includes prevention of illegal working, Tier 2 of the points-based system, sponsor license applications, business visitors, and other UK employment-related immigration categories. Jennifer is a member of the Economic Migration Subcommittee of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association. For more information, view Jennifer's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/jconnolly.

Jerome Akman

Jerry maintains a multidisciplinary international law practice, including work on foreign investment in the United States and abroad (acquisitions and establishment of new companies); general legal representation of foreign companies and their US subsidiaries in connection with matters both within the US and abroad; negotiation of agreements (financial, licensing, distribution and agency and other commercial agreements); defense of foreign clients in US and foreign litigation; protection of foreign creditors’ interests in US bankruptcy proceedings; and matters arising under US trade laws (antidumping, countervailing duty, US customs, trade sanctions, and other import and export restrictions).

Joachim Heine

Joachim Heine leads clients through complex public and private mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, private equity transactions, and venture capital financings with an emphasis on life sciences transactions. During his accomplished career of more than 20 years, he has handled over 100 international projects ranging from multibillion-dollar public takeovers, to mid-size M&A deals and venture capital financing for clients in Germany, Sweden, the United States, China, and Japan. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/joachimheine

Jon Hines

Jon is a partner in the firm's energy transactions team. He represents private and state-owned companies in major transactions, including project development, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions. Jon focuses primarily on large-scale oil and gas projects, including liquefied natural gas deals, as well as mining development and other industrial ventures. He advises on such transactions—including related financings—in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and assists major Russian companies in their projects worldwide. For more information, view Jonathan's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/jhhines

Jörg Siegels

Jörg Siegels advises clients on corporate tax matters. His practice covers tax-related issues, including international and domestic tax planning. He counsels clients on the tax implications of mergers, acquisitions, and group reorganizations, such as spinoffs and outsourcings. He also works with foreign investors on their German-market activities, including permanent establishments, branches, partnership structures, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Additionally, Jörg advises businesses on tax issues related to employee compensation, and financial instruments and investments. For more information, view Jörg's biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/jsiegels

Julio Vega

Julio represents public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including biotechnology, medical devices, nanotechnology, advanced materials, software, networking, e-commerce, and fintech. Julio has experience counseling clients on venture capital and other private equity financing transactions, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, and corporate partnering transactions. He regularly counsels clients on general corporate, employee compensation, and corporate governance matters. Julio is also very active in the representation of start-up and emerging growth companies in the life sciences and technology industries. Julio has experience on international transactions and has been listed in Chambers Global for Life Sciences.

Karen Butcher

Recognized for her intellectual property (IP) work, Karen A. Butcher advises clients on maximizing the value of their IP and protecting their intellectual assets. She focuses on brands, creative works, technology, and related IP. Karen handles transactions and helps clients to structure the ownership and licensing of IP within their corporate group and to resolve complex disputes when they arise. A practice leader in the firm’s intellectual property practice, Karen brings an international perspective to strategic business issues and regularly speaks and writes about IP.

Karl Horvath

Karl Horvath, of counsel in the structured transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, has a broad range of experience of structured finance transactions and advises on securitisations across a range of asset classes (including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, whole businesses, consumer loans, renewable energy, and hire purchase agreements). Karl also advises on CLOs, warehouses and aircraft finance leases, as well as on numerous security structures involving financial collateral.For more information, view Karl’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/karlhorvath.

Kate Habershon

Kate Habershon is a partner who advises corporations and funds on corporate taxation. Her focuses include tax and structuring issues related to international tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity, executive compensation, internal group restructurings, capital markets and banking. She also advices on stamp taxes and VAT. For more information, view Kate's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/khabershon.

Katherine Dobson

Katherine focuses her practice on financial services transactions involving the application of derivatives in trading, distressed debt transactions, and legal and regulatory issues. She represents hedge funds, banks, broker-dealers, and other market participants in complex cross-border and US futures, derivatives, and commodities transactions as well as creditors’ rights matters including workouts and corporate reorganizations.

Kelly Kuschel

Kelly is part of a team of attorneys representing real estate owners and stakeholders in connection with their ownership, use, and financing of real estate. Clients include national and international companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), institutional lenders, private equity funds, pension funds, and advisers. While attending law school, Kelly served as an associate editor of the Journal of International Law. He earned a certificate in Latin American and Latino studies and served as the mentor and recruiting liaison for the Latin American Law Students Association.

Klara Nurgaziyeva

Klara is a partner in Morgan Lewis's corporate business transactions team who represents clients in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cross-border investments, and commercial transactions in the oil and gas, telecommunication, infrastructure, banking, and other industries in Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries. She also advises various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on family and education pro bono matters in Kazakhstan. For more information, view Klara's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/knurgaziyeva

Konstantin Kochetkov

Konstantin is a partner in the firm's Moscow office who focuses his practice on banking and finance law and advises on project finance, sovereign debt, and infrastructure transactions. He has experience in various financing transactions in the Russian Federation, and representing both lenders and borrowers, including major metals and mining groups. For more information, view Konstantin's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/kkochetkov

Ksenia Andreeva

Ksenia is a partner whose corporate business transactions practice focuses on business concerns associated with intellectual property matters. Ksenia provides counsel on transactional, noncontentious, and contractual IP work and IP enforcement. Fluent in Russian, Ksenia is a registered trademark attorney and is admitted to represent clients before the Russian Patent and Trademark Office (Rospatent), the Chamber for Patent and Trademark Disputes, and the Russian courts. Her clients are in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. For more information, view Ksenia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/kandreeva

Laetitia De Pelet

Laetitia is an associate who has a dual practice spanning litigation and arbitration as well as labour and employment. She advises companies facing business and corporate disputes, criminal allegations, and on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Additionally, She counsels on data privacy and cybersecurity issues. For more information, view Laetitia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/laetitiadepelet

Leiv Blad

Leiv Blad focuses on antitrust investigations and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and class action and multiparty litigation. He represents clients in government investigations and private litigation raising price fixing, monopolization, and intellectual property issues in various industries, including the financial services, high technology, pharmaceutical, and energy industries.

Lisa Cargill

A partner in the structured transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, Lisa Cargill advises on a range of asset-backed securitization and structured finance matters. She acts for financial institutions, investment funds, and corporates on public and private transactions that cover a variety of asset classes across a number of jurisdictions (such as auto loans, trade receivables, equipment leases, insurance premium loans, residential mortgages, and corporate and consumer loans originated through marketplace lending platforms). For more information, view Lisa’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/lisacargill.

Louis Ramos

Louis Ramos is a former federal prosecutor and in-house lawyer whose practice focuses on white collar litigation, government and internal investigations, and compliance counseling. Lou’s experience includes leading investigations and counseling clients on matters involving issues of anticorruption, antibribery, antikickback, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act, and good research and manufacturing practices. He has led investigations in the United States and around the world, including Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Pakistan. Lou also has a strong litigation background from his time in public service—he served for nearly six years as an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Columbia, was the lead federal prosecutor in 19 jury trials and more than 30 bench trials, and directed numerous grand jury investigations into violations of federal and local criminal laws.

Louise Skinner

Louise Skinner is a partner in Morgan Lewis's London office who provides sophisticated, strategic advice on all aspects of employment law, with particular focus on regulatory employment matters. Louise advises on issues including investigations, contractual disputes, whistleblowing, discrimination and restraint of trade. Louise has particular experience in financial services, life sciences and sports, media and entertainment sectors. For more information, view Louise's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/louiseskinner.

Luis Torres-Cervantes

Luis represents both institutional lenders and corporate borrowers. He works with clients on secured credit facilities, acquisition financing, film financing, loan syndications, litigation funding, and other financial matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Luis was a staff editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law.

Marat Mukhamediyev

Marat is an associate in the firm's corporate business transactions team who focuses his practice on matters involving mergers and acquisitions, finance transactions, and general commercial law. He advises clients on complex transactions in telecommunication, oil and gas, and banking sectors. Marat also represents some clients in commercial litigation. For more information, view Marat's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/mmukhamediyev

Marcus Marsh

Marcus Marsh represents traditional banks, business development companies, and other institutional lenders and financing sources such as hedge funds, borrowers, and issuers in a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financings, senior and mezzanine financing arrangements, and debt restructurings. Marcus also advises clients in matters related to structured finance transactions, including the use of derivatives in securitizations.

Margaret Gatti

Margaret Gatti represents US and non-US companies, universities, and financial institutions in matters involving economic sanctions, export controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), customs and import regulations, free trade agreements, antiboycott regulations (EAR and IRS), anticorruption laws (FCPA and UKBA), anti-money laundering legislation, international commercial sales terms (INCOTERMS), international e-commerce, and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reporting, as well as national security issues.

Mark Zelek

Mark focuses on employment and employee benefits counseling and litigation involving wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and retaliation claims in addition to whistleblower, noncompetition, and trade secrets matters. As leader of the firm’s global labor and immigration practice, Mark handles international and Puerto Rican labor law matters. He advises U.S. clients on Latin American and Puerto Rican labor law and Latin American clients on U.S. labor law.

Mark Geday

Mark Geday, a partner in the corporate practice at Morgan Lewis, has more than 20 years of experience employing a range of innovative and market-defining transactions, including complex private and public matters involving parties with differing needs and goals, for clients spanning all areas of the private equity and asset management sector. Mark advises on myriad aspects of company law including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, joint ventures, fundraisings and strategic stakes. For more information, view Mark's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/markgeday.

Matthew Howse

As labor and employment practice group leader in London, Matthew Howse represents clients in the financial services, media, legal, and insurance industries in High Court and employment tribunal litigation and in class actions, collective actions, and group litigation. His experience includes employment law as well as privacy and cybersecurity law. In addition to litigating both contentious and noncontentious issues, Matthew provides strategic employment law advice and counsels clients on the employment law aspects of transactions. For more information, view Karl’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/mhowse.

Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa advises clients on the full spectrum of labor and employment law matters. This includes including single-plaintiff, class, and collective action litigation (both wage and hour and discrimination claims); wage and hour and other employment counseling; traditional labor work. In her litigation practice, she represents employers in individual, class, and collective action litigation, and in administrative agency actions concerning federal and state labor and employment statutes. Her clients hail from sectors including the retail, airline, transportation, food services and financial services industries. Melissa routinely counsels employers with operations in Puerto Rico and represents employers in federal litigation and administrative matters in Puerto Rico.

Michael Reilly

Michael has more than 30 years of experience representing public and private bondholders and lenders in financial restructurings. He represents clients in a wide array of industries in the United States, UK/Europe, and Latin America. Michael is a member of INSOL and he is one of only a handful of lawyers who have been elected by their peers as a fellow in both the American College of Bankruptcy and the American College of Investment Counsel. He was listed in Legal 500 Latin America for Banking & Finance in 2013.

Michael Masling

Michael Masling advises clients on all aspects of EU and German competition law. Michael obtains merger clearances from national and international competition authorities in complex transactions, defends clients in government and private investigations and cross-border litigation, provides antitrust counseling including on distribution systems and compliance systems. In addition, he counsels clients on European and German foreign direct investment (FDI) rules. For more information, view Michael's biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/mmasling

Mike Pierides

Mike Pierides, a partner in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, advises on major outsourcings, strategic restructurings following divestments or acquisitions, and technology-specific transactions such as licensing and “as a service” arrangements. He is also active advising on new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Mike has also worked at the intersection of financial services compliance and technology, advising clients on their related systems and compliance procedures. For more information, view Mike’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/mikepierides.

Neil McKnight

Neil McKnight, a partner in the tax practice at Morgan Lewis, advises on a full range of corporate, finance, and real estate tax matters, including corporate mergers and acquisitions (both buy and sell side), reorganisations, and real estate acquisitions, disposals and investment transactions. Neil has a particular interest in indirect tax and VAT matters relating to cross-border transactions (particularly in the TMT sector), eCommerce, and financial services. For more information, view Neil’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/neilmcknight.

Nick Bolter

Nick Bolter, a partner in the intellectual property practice at Morgan Lewis, represents clients in the selection, prosecution, protection, and enforcement of trademarks, brands, and designs in the United Kingdom and across Europe. His clients include some of the world’s best-known brands in retail, luxury, and apparel, as well online retailers and technology and automotive companies. For more information, view Nick’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/nickbolter.

Nick Moore

A partner in the corporate practice at Morgan Lewis, Nick Moore focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investments, joint ventures, strategic advice and corporate restructurings. He has particular experience in the telecom, media and technology sectors. For more information, view Nick’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/nicholasmoore.

Noelia Martinez

Noelia is an associate in Morgan Lewis's antitrust and competition practice based in the firm's Brussels office.

Oleg Egorov

Oleg is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Moscow office who counsels clients in corporate matters involving capital markets, regulatory issues, and general civil law. His experience includes mergers and acquisitions and related antitrust issues, due diligence projects, and finance transactions. His clients span various industries, including telecommunications, information technology, energy, and automotives. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Oleg trained in the Moscow offices of US- and German-based international law firms. For more information, view Oleg's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/oegorov

Oliver Rochman

Oliver Rochman, a partner in the investment management practice at Morgan Lewis, advises global private investment managers investing funds across multiple strategies including venture and growth, private equity, private debt, funds of funds and impact. He has wide-ranging private investment fund experience, which includes fund restructurings, secondary transactions, and co-investments, as well as providing counsel on management operations, carried interest arrangements, and co-investment schemes. For more information, view Oliver’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/oliverrochman.

Olivier Chambord

Olivier is a partner in the firm's energy transactions team who represents a variety of international energy clients in project development, mergers, acquisitions, and disposals in Europe and Africa. Olivier advises oil and gas and petrochemicals companies in projects, acquisitions, and disposals involving upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas assets and infrastructure. He also advises on petroleum licensing and concessions, permitting issues, petroleum audits, crude oil and refined products sale and purchase agreements, lifting agreements, unitization agreements, refinery joint ventures, and the development of domestic and international pipeline infrastructure. For more information, view Olivier's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ochambord

Omar Shah

Omar Shah is a partner in Morgan Lewis's London office who represents clients in complex global cartel and anticorruption investigations and civil proceedings for damages for breach of antitrust laws, as well in merger control procedures and on antitrust matters, particularly those involving the intersection of competition law with media/communications regulation. His practice involves representing clients before UK, EU, and other competition authorities, courts, and tribunals and in commercial and regulatory litigation proceedings, including judicial reviews. For more information, view Omar's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/omarshah.

Paul Ranson

Paul Ranson is a consultant who focuses on the regulatory and commercial needs of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical devices sectors. Paul’s regulatory expertise covers both marketing authorisation-related matters and market access, pricing, and reimbursement issues. His commercial work is concentrated on transactions with a high degree of industry specificity including collaborations and outsourcing transactions. For more information, view Paul's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/pranson.

Paul Mesquitta

Paul Mesquitta advises clients on complex commercial disputes in the English courts and in arbitration. He also provides insurance and reinsurance policy coverage advice to policyholders. For more information, view Paul’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/paulmesquitta.

Paul Matthews

Paul Matthews, a partner in the structured transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, works with clients to meet their specific risk-management, funding, regulatory capital, and investment-driven objectives. Paul also focuses on applying and integrating derivatives and derivatives technology in structured finance transactions. For more information, view Paul’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/paulmatthews.

Philip Korotin

Philip is an associate in the firm's corporate business transactions practice who focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate matters, and regulatory matters. Philip’s experience includes matters relating to Russian securities regulation and compliance, antitrust, and anticorruption. He counsels and represents international and Russian clients from various industries, including energy, oil and gas, consumer goods, and media and entertainment. Philip’s clients range in size from Fortune 500 to emerging market companies. For more information, view Philip's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/pkorotin

Pulina Whitaker

A partner at Morgan Lewis, Pulina focuses her practice on a variety of labor and employment matters, including transactional employment law in sales and acquisitions; acting for corporations and multinationals in defense of claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination claims related to sex, race, religion, age, and disability, and breach of contract claims; European data privacy and antibribery issues; whistleblower hotlines for European-based companies and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements; and other international investigations and compliance matters. Pulina has experience advising on commercial outsourcing and corporate reorganizations, specifically negotiating warranty and indemnity provisions and disclosures in transactional documentation. She also advises on reorganizations regarding information and consultation obligations in the United Kingdom and across other European jurisdictions. Pulina’s practice spans internationally, with matters involving the coordination of redundancy programs and restructuring exercises across European jurisdictions and international employee consultation requirements. She also provides advice regarding European data privacy and antibribery issues in connection with FCPA investigations, the Bribery Act, and export control arrangements. For more information, view Pulina's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/pwhitaker.

Robert Mailer

Robert Mailer, a partner in the investment management practice at Morgan Lewis, focuses on private investment fund formation and fundraising, representing managers and investors across a wide range of strategies, including growth, venture capital, infrastructure, debt, and buy-out. He has a particular focus on clients investing in new technologies such as artificial intelligence and fintech, and has substantial experience advising teams on spin outs and the establishment of new fund management companies, as well as on defaulting investor and on other ongoing and end-of-life funds issues. For more information, view Robert’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/robertmailer.

Robert Brochin

Leveraging 30 years of trial experience and a decade of high-level public service in state government, Robert M. Brochin represents corporate clients facing complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters in a wide range of areas, from real estate to financial services. Bobby brings a passion for public law and human rights issues, combined with insights into the business regulatory process, to his practice. He is managing partner of Morgan Lewis’s Miami office.

Robert McDonnell

Robert concentrates on environmental, land use, and real estate matters. He counsels clients on compliance and permitting, defends them in enforcement cases, and represents them in trials in the state and federal courts and in hearings before administrative agencies and boards. Bob has also represented fiduciaries in trust disputes and will contests, and has tried commercial and maritime cases involving breach of contract and tort claims.

Roman Dashko

Roman is a partner in the firm's Moscow Office. He advises international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas, power, oilfield services, automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, technology, and real estate sectors. He has experience with structuring complex joint ventures, and with reorganizations and restructurings. He also represents issuers, lead managers, and depositaries in a range of international capital markets transactions, including IPOs. He works on antitrust, pharmaceutical, and other regulatory matters as well. For more information, view Roman's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/rdashko

Roman Popakiuk

Roman Popadiuk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, is an International Affairs Advisor and former Principal for Morgan Lewis Consulting. A retired member of the career Senior Foreign Service, Roman brings more than 30 years of experience in the areas of national security, political risk analysis, communications strategy and energy policy, including serving on the National Security Councils of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. With his vast experience and contacts that span the globe, Roman brings a unique insight into international political and business matters. From 1989 to 1992, Roman served as deputy assistant to the President and deputy press secretary for Foreign Affairs under President George H. W. Bush, a position he also held toward the end of President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Roman began his career in the Foreign Service in 1981. He served in Mexico City from 1982 to 1984, where he did consular and political work and was special assistant to the ambassador. He then served a two-year tour with the Department of State and the National Security Council.

Sabine Smith-Vidal

Sabine is a partner in the firm's Paris office who advises French and international companies on labour and employment issues associated with cross-border transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. Working closely with her clients, Sabine assists with the establishment of pension plans, employee savings plans, and social plans. She advises corporations on multijurisdictional employment issues, including trade union law, outsourcing, and individual and collective dismissals. In addition, Sabine provides guidance and legal representation in labour dispute litigation. Sabine is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis’s Paris office. For more information, view Sabine’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ssmithvidal

Salvador Juncadella

Salvador J. Juncadella consults on business and finance matters relating to the laws, customs, and lawyers of more than 25 countries—spanning from Mexico to Argentina, and including the Caribbean nations. Salvador brings to Morgan Lewis’s clients more than 25 years’ experience as corporate counsel for Exxon Corporation’s affiliates in Latin America. He also served as general counsel of Esso Inter_America, Inc., a Florida-based regional office of Exxon Corporation petroleum interests in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Salvador is admitted to practice in Cuba only.

Sanford W. Stark

Sanford W. Stark is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. Sanford counsels on a wide range of complex domestic and international tax issues, including a significant emphasis on cross-border transfer pricing. He has served as counsel in a number of the largest tax controversy and litigation matters in recent years. He advises clients in various industries and on all aspects of the tax controversy process, including pre-audit, audit, administrative appeals, Advance Pricing Agreements, and Competent Authority proceedings. Sanford litigates tax disputes in federal trial and appellate courts and State courts, and his transfer pricing experience includes planning and internal restructurings in addition to controversy and litigation.

Scott Farmer

Scott Farmer advises clients on all aspects of international tax planning and controversy with the Internal Revenue Service. His clients include US firms engaged in non-US business activities as well as non-US firms operating within the United States. Scott frequently lectures at the World Trade Institute and the Tax Executives Institute. He also writes on international tax topics, including “Partnership Dispositions of Stock in Controlled Foreign Corporations,” 110 Tax Notes 1319 (March 20, 2006). Scott is named one of the country’s leading practitioners in taxation by Chambers USA, one of the world’s leading practitioners in international tax by Chambers Global, and a leader in mergers and acquisitions and cross-border structuring by International Tax Review’s World Tax.

Shana White

Shana represents clients in matters related to transactional finance, including secured lending transactions, workouts, intercreditor agreements and debtor-in-possession financings.

Simon Currie

Simon Currie, a partner in the investment management practice at Morgan Lewis, advises clients on securities and financial services regulatory issues in relation to the investment industry, with a particular focus on fund managers and private investment funds. Simon’s work includes counseling on the application of EU single-market directives, the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and the rules of the Financial Conduct Authority, including authorization applications, conduct of business issues, and general compliance issues. For more information, view Simon’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/simoncurrie.

Stacey Anne Mahoney

Stacey Anne Mahoney’s practice includes all aspects of antitrust law. In her antitrust litigation practice, she represents clients as plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts throughout the US, in cases involving restraints of trade, monopolization, tying, exclusive dealing, price discrimination, false advertising, unfair competition, and related business torts. In her merger practice, Stacey develops and implements domestic and international merger advocacy strategies, including trial as needed. Stacey’s counseling practice includes advising on distribution and pricing issues, as well as joint ventures and other competitor collaborations. She has worked extensively in pharmaceuticals and healthcare, payment systems, financial services, advertising and marketing, retail, and publishing. Stacey is consistently ranked among the top antitrust lawyers in New York by Chambers USA and Super Lawyers, The Legal 500, and most recently by Global Competition Review. Chambers USA recognizes her “excellent antitrust litigation practice” and describes her as “very smart and very responsive,” “very perceptive and very knowledgeable,” offering a “highly pragmatic approach to matters.” Super Lawyers reports that she is a “fearless and innovative litigator, able to adjust to any type of antitrust case,” “with an outstanding ability to think strategically” with “the knowledge and litigation skills to match the most senior antitrust litigators.”

Steven Navarro

Steven concentrates on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity transactions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances primarily in the life sciences, energy and natural resources, and industrial sectors. He advises private equity funds, and multinational public and private companies on complex acquisitions, dispositions, and securities transactions. His practice also encompasses public and private M&A, stock and asset transactions, and purchases and sales resulting from bankruptcy and out-of-court restructurings. He is group leader of the New York office corporate, finance and investment management practice, and a former co-leader of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice.

Ted Craig

Ted Craig is a partner in the Private Investment Funds practice, and is based in the firm’s London office. He is a private funds lawyer with significant experience across fund formation, fund investments and fund transactions. Mr. Craig advises fund sponsors on the structuring and establishment of private funds and their related carried interest and co-investment programs. He also represents investors on private fund investments. In addition, he has particular experience advising on private fund transactions, including secondary transactions, fund restructurings, preferred equity solutions, co-investments and manager formation and spin-outs. Mr. Craig works on fund-related matters across all alternative asset classes, including private equity, private credit, venture capital, real estate and infrastructure.

Thane Scott

Thane concentrates his practice on matters involving antitrust and trade regulation. Throughout the past 30 years, he has counseled industry leaders and litigated prominent cases that define modern antitrust law. He actively litigates in both state and federal courts and has served as lead or liaison counsel in numerous multidistrict, complex, and class action cases. Thane regularly defends business and consumer class actions involving antitrust and business tort claims, including class certification issues, and he has successfully concluded well over 100 government investigations of mergers and other coordinated conduct involving national and international companies. He also handles disputes involving multi-tiered distribution systems and supply chain management, particularly in technology-intensive industries. Thane has achieved widespread recognition in leading national and international surveys of clients and fellow professionals. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and is also featured in international rankings such as Cross Border Competition Handbook and the PLC Which Lawyer? publications.

Theresa Kradjian

A partner at Morgan Lewis, Theresa focuses her practice on a broad range of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securitisation and structured finance transactions, with a particular concentration in covered bond transactions for US and UK issuers. Theresa works on both public and private offerings of securities in cross-border transactions, as well as repurchase transactions and securities lending arrangements. Her experience also includes the representation of financial institutions in connection with repurchase transactions and other financing transactions. For more information, view Theresa's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/tkradjian.

Thomas Mellor

Thomas represents banks and other financial institutions in a variety of debt finance transactions in the United States and globally, including syndicated, club and bilateral lending transactions (investment grade and leveraged) as well as project finance and restructuring transactions. He has particular experience in cross-border financings (especially in Latin America, Europe, and Asia) as well as financings with structural or other sorts of complexity. Tom has been ranked by Latinvex as one of Latin America's Top 100 Lawyers (2014-2015). Chambers Latin America 2017 has ranked Tom in Banking & Finance, Latin America-wide.

Timothy DeSieno

Tim DeSieno advises institutional investors in protecting and restructuring their investments globally in cases of economic, political, financial, or other stress. Tim’s work includes advising a group of holders of untendered Argentine sovereign bonds in connection with their “pari passu” rights, advising sovereign creditors of Greece and Grenada, advising creditors of nationalized businesses in Venezuela, advising creditors on their exposure to stressed banks in Iceland and Ireland, and advising creditors on their exposure to stressed energy companies in Latin America and Europe. Tim’s recent work includes advising creditors and creditor committees in restructurings in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Russia, and Thailand.

Timothy Corbett

Tim is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s London office, he concentrates his practice on cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and venture capital financings. Tim advises clients on related corporate matters, including governance, securities law compliance, and disclosure requirements and practices. He has experience with transactions in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United States, and the UK. His clients, located in Europe and the United States, include life sciences, technology, and media enterprises. For more information, view Tim's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/tcorbett.

Tomasz Wozniak

A partner at Morgan Lewis, Tomasz Woźniak advises public and private companies and private equity sponsors on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, joint ventures, and strategic transactions. He has experience across sectors including financial services, energy, and consumer products. Additionally, Tom worked in Moscow for several years and has advised on numerous transactions across Eastern Europe. For more information, view Tom’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/tomaszwozniak.

Torsten Schwarze

Torsten Schwarze counsels clients on complex financing transactions, including acquisition and real estate finance transactions, restructurings, and derivatives transactions, as well as regulatory matters and compliance issues. His clients include banks, financial service institutions, investment companies, stock and derivatives exchanges, and other companies. He also represents his clients in court and administrative proceedings on compliance and regulatory matters. Torsten is a member of the firm’s LIBOR working group, which acts as its go-to authority on LIBOR transition across a range of jurisdictions and practice areas, and tracks evolving deadlines in relation to LIBOR replacements. For more information, view Torsten's biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/tschwarze

Tsugumichi Watanabe

Tsugu’s practice focuses on financing matters with particular emphasis on: project finance and infrastructure transactions; leveraged and asset-based lending financings, including aircraft financings; loan trading; and loan restructurings and refinancings, including in a bankruptcy context. Tsugu currently serves as the Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis’s Tokyo Office. Tsugu counsels clients in real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters, including employment issues involving Japanese affiliates of multinational companies. He also assists Japanese clients in international arbitration proceedings and US litigation, and he advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients on cross-border transactions originating from inside and outside Japan.

Ulises Pin

Ulises represents US and foreign communications and technology companies on corporate, financial, and regulatory matters. He also advises private equity firms, venture capital funds, and financial institutions on investments in the telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT) sectors. Ulises represents clients before the Federal Communications Commission and government agencies in Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He has substantial experience in cross-border transactions. Ulises’s practice covers all sectors of the TMT market, including wireline, wireless and international communications, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), infrastructure projects (land and submarine networks), satellite services, and emerging technologies. He counsels on complex cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; public offerings; joint ventures; and private and public equity investments. He also represents public and private companies in international corporate and finance transactions across industries, including telecommunications, technology, energy, retail, and real estate.

Ulrich Korth

Ulrich Korth focuses his practice on both private equity and private and public cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and investments. Ulrich brings years of experience representing global financial investors and corporate clients in complex pan-European and cross-border transactions. In particular, Ulrich has advised major multinational corporations in public and private mergers and acquisition transactions throughout Germany and mainland Europe, including international carve-out transactions in the industrial sector. For more information, view Ulrich’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/ulrichkorth

Valentina Semenikhina

Valentina is an associate in the firm's Moscow office. With a Ph.D. and fluency in three languages, Valentina advises Russian and international companies on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and capital markets matters. Valentina, whose clients have included start-ups as well as large retail companies and banks located around the globe, advises on multijurisdictional mergers and joint ventures, private equity investments, and securities offerings. Valentina also handles corporate governance matters and due diligence. For more information, view Valentina's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/vsemenikhina

Vasilisa Strizh

Vasilisa is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Moscow office. She represents clients in cross-border and domestic investments, joint ventures, and M&A transactions. She also advises on capital markets transactions, including public and private equity securities offerings and related corporate, regulatory, securities, compliance, and reporting matters. Vasilisa works with companies across multiple industries, including pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial services, mass media and telecommunications, energy, and the nonprofit sector. She has served as lead lawyer on complex cross-border corporate transactions, including projects involving the issuance and listing of securities, structured settlements, and financing. For more information, view Vasilisa’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/vstrizh

Victoria Régis

Victoria is an associate in the firm's corporate business transactions practice who counsels both French and international corporations, investment funds, and institutional investors in relation to their mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions. For more information, view Victoria's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/vregis

Walter Ahrens

Walter Ahrens counsels employers on labor and employment law issues, including workforce changes, mergers and acquisitions, European and German works councils, employment contracts, terminations, pensions and benefits, and data privacy. He also represents employers in labor courts against employees, works councils, and trade unions. Walter is part of Morgan Lewis’s cross-practice global workforce team, which provides integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning on labor, employment, benefits, and immigration. Walter is also the leader of the labor and employment practice for the Frankfurt office. For more information, view Walter's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/wahrens

William Yonge

William Yonge is a partner in the firm’s London office who specializes in UK and European financial services regulatory advice in the private investment funds and financial institutions sectors. Clients include hedge, private equity, and other fund managers, and banks, broker-dealers, corporate finance firms, institutional investors, insurers, other financial institutions, and market associations. William frequently handles regulatory matters that arise during fund formations, mergers and acquisitions, and investment management business creations, and advises on agreements with customers and service providers. For more information, view William's bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/wyonge.

Xavier Haranger

Xavier is an associate who is part of a litigation team that serves clients facing business and corporate disputes, corporate investigations and criminal allegations, environmental matters, and international arbitration. In addition to French, Xavier is fluent in English and German. His law studies emphasized law and globalization and he trained specifically in French and German law as an undergraduate. Previously, Xavier was an associate in the litigation practice of another international law firm in Paris. For more information, view Xavier's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/xharanger

Xavier Martin

Xavier Martin is an associate in the firm's corporate business transactions practice who advises corporate and private equity clients on mergers ans acquisitions, private equity, and equity fund raising transactions. Xavier has a particular interest in public company and securities law matters and in life sciences and technology sectors. For more information, view Xavier's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/xaviermartin

Yerke Alikhanova

Yerke is an associate in the firm’s corporate business transactions practice, which represents diverse clients seeking to manage their business with matters including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, and strategic alliances. Additional areas of this work involve private equity, private investment funds, finance, restructuring, capital markets, corporate governance, emerging business, outsourcing, real estate, and tax matters. Clients represent industry sectors such as the life sciences, technology, media and entertainment, financial services, energy, shipping, and retail. For more information, view Yerke's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/yalikhanova

Yvette Allen

Yvette Allen is a member of the firm’s immigration and global mobility team. She advises businesses of all sizes from a variety of sectors on the full range of UK immigration permissions as well as global immigration matters for the EMEA region. This includes prevention of illegal working, Tier 2 and 5 of the points-based system, business visitors, EEA applications and preparations for Brexit, and other UK employment-related immigration categories. For more information, view Yvette’s bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/yvetteallen.

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